Search Results: American History from Midway Used and Rare Books

New York: Trow Press, 1914. Hardcover. Good. 23.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 353pp. Bound in grey cloth, gilt emblem. There is a small stain to the front cover and front free endpapers. Discoloration to back cover. Typed letter laid in to an unspecified doctor from the United States Brewers' Association.

Nebraska: Woodruff Printing Co, 1938. Wraps. near fine. octavo. Pictorial wrappers. 112pp Very nice copy. WPA.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1995. Full Leather. Fine. Complete six volume set consisting of 2 volumes for "The Prairie Years" and 4 volumes for "The War Years". 24 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. 480pp, 482pp, 660pp, 655pp, 673pp, 515pp. Uniformly bound into full maroon leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges,.Gilt and Blind stamped covers. 5 raised bands to spines. Moire endpapers and ribbons.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 423pp. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Some rubbing to the jacket.

Boston: B. B. Russell and Company, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 20.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 216pp. Frontispiece portrait. Bound in 3/4 green leather with marble boards and endpapers. First edition with 1865 on title and copyright page. Sun toning to spine. Chip out of head of spine. Rubbing to corners of boards. Scattered foxing. Binding is tight. Early Lincoln biography; one of the first published after his assassination.

New York: The Review of Reviews Corporation, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jackets and Very Good slipcase. 28 x 20.5 cm. Quarto. Two volume orange cloth set in dust jackets and original slipcase. Gilt top foredges. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of both volumes. Light discoloration to the foredge of volume 2. Dust jacket spine is sun faded, some scratching to the jackets. Sunning to the edges of the box.

University of Missouri Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. 153pp. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper.

Washington DC: Democratic National Committee, 1935. Hard Cover. VG. Pamphlets bound in one volume. - The Case for Franklin D. Roosevelt, History and Functions of the National Committee, The New Era, A Challenge to America, Postal Affairs and the National Economy, The Problem of Agriculture,The Spirit of the New Deal, Haverstraw-My Home Town, Party Responsibility, Education and its Responsibility,The Opportunity of Education, Democratic Achievement & Closing Address of the 1936 Presidential Campaign. FULL PAGE SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY BY JAMES A. FARLEY AND DATED MARCH 17, 1941.

James H. Lambert, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. very good. 12mo. 18cm x 12cm. Green cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. 261pp. Lacking front endpaperr. SIGNED and ijnscribed by author, Geo. W. Peck on page preceding title page.Some light edge rubbing to tail of spine. Very nice copy. Author's first book. This book was a collation of the columns that Peck had written about McGrant. From the Weekly newspaper ,Ripon Representative, (1866) Peck wrote a column authored by "Terence McGrant

Clear Lake, Iowa: H&M Industries, Ltd, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. Quarto. 196pp. Bound in blue cloth, paste-down illustration to front cover. Many black and white illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Some scuffing to edges of the boards.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1958. Second edition. Hardcover. VG/G. Octavo. 9" x 6.25" 625pp. A nice very good copy with some light staining on the back board in the upper left corner and some residual staining from tape on the dust jacket. Dust Jacket is in good condition. It looks like a previuos owner put clear tape over all the corners, perhaps to keep it from getting torn. Unfortunately, the tape is now discolored.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 233pp. End notes, bibliography, idnex. Blue boards gilt letteirng. Previous owner's address label on front free endpaper.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1906. Hard Cover. near fine/near fine. Beautifully ornate covers with gilt design All in cloth dust jackets. Illustrated. Bookplates on front free endpaper. A beautiful set.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 367pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index. Blue cloth in dust jacket.

New York: Evert Duyckinck, 102 Pearl-Street, 1813. Full Leather. Fair. 15 x 19.5 cm. 12mo. iv 392pp. Bound into full period leather with leather spine label. One of the front free endpapers is missing. Some pen marks to page 389, effecting some of the words, as well as to the rear endpapers. Darkening to pages 1-5, making them difficult to decipher. Front hinge tender. Wear to tail of spine. Previous owner's name John B. Butler on title page. A bookplate noting that the book was presented by Butler to the Quintilian Society in 1819 is on the front fixed endpaper. References: OCLC 85797777, Sabin 1270 (but different publication locations).

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935. Hard Cover. vg. Quarto. 151pp Red leather backstrip and buckram cloth. Many full page color and black and white illustrations. Nice copy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. [xviii] 881pp. 32 illustrations, list of abreviations, references, index. red cloth in price clipped (at top and bottom of front flap) dust jacket. First edition with Pulbished May, 1929 on copyright page. Jacket has tape repair/reinforcement. Nice copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Complete 3 volume set of Remini's series on President Andrew Jackson. All are stated first edition hardcovers with full number lines in dust jackets. 24 x 16 cm. Octavos. 502pp, 469pp, 638pp. Light shelf wear to the jackets. Volume 2 is price clipped.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jackeet. 24 x 16 cm. Octaov. 463pp. Burgundy cloth, green covers in dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Original price of $25.00 on front free endpaper. Jacket spine is lightly faded.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Complete 3 volume set of Remini's series on President Andrew Jackson. All are stated first edition hardcovers in dust jackets. 24 x 16 cm. Octavos. 502pp, 469pp, 638pp. Jacket of volume 2 is price clipped, a bit of edgewear and closed tears to the jackets.